Obituaries

Carl C. "Kelly" Kellermann, Jr.

Carl C. "Kelly" Kellermann, Jr.

Aug 26, 2007

Mr. Carl "Kelly" Kellermann, Jr., 54, of Gautier, MS, died Sunday, August 26, 2007, in Gautier. Mr. Kellermann was born in St. Paul, MN and had been a resident of the coast for the past 30 years. He was chief engineer with McAllister Brothers and a veteran of the U. S. Air Force. He was of the Catholic faith. Mr....

Hortense "Tonsie" Lapeyrouse Gaude'

Hortense "Tonsie" Lapeyrouse Gaude'

Aug 26, 2007

Hortense "Tonsie" Lapeyrouse Gaude' was born May 4, 1903 in Thibodaux, Louisiana. One of eleven children born to David Louis Lapeyrouse and Marie Bourgeois Lapeyrouse, she lived in Thibodaux until her marriage to Robert P. Gaude' of Biloxi in 1925. She was a resident of Biloxi for the remainder of her life. Tonsie had three children: Robert, Jr., Shirley, and...

Bobby Harris Lott

Bobby Harris Lott

Aug 24, 2007

Mr. Bobby Harris Lott, 76, of Vancleave, MS died Friday, August 24, 2007, in Vancleave. Bobby was a resident of the Gulf Coast for 47 years. He recently converted to the Catholic Faith and was a member of St. John's Catholic Church in Gulfport. He supported the Knights of Columbus in Columbia, MS. Bobby loved his family and friends. He...

Margaret Evelyn Heise

Margaret Evelyn Heise

Aug 23, 2007

Evelyn Heise, 80, of Biloxi, MS died Thursday, August 23, 2007 in Biloxi. Margaret was a resident of Biloxi for the past 54 years. She has worked as a secretary for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Baptist Association. She also worked for 13 years as a medical secretary at Keesler A.F.B. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Biloxi...

William  Lloyd Witham, Sr.

William Lloyd Witham, Sr.

Aug 21, 2007

William L. Witham, Sr., Lt. Col. U.S.A.F. Retired, 85, of Ocean Springs, MS. died August 21, 2007 in Ocean Springs. He served 20 years in the United States Air Force retiring in 1963. As a pilot he flew many types of aircraft, including B-24's, B-25's and C-54's. He retired from the Civil Service in 1983 after 20 years where he...

Tommie Germany McCaleb

Tommie Germany McCaleb

Aug 20, 2007

Tommie Germany McCaleb, age 89, of Broussard, LA, died Monday, August 20, 2007 in Broussard. She was born in Neshoba County, Ms and was a longtime resident of Gulfport having moved to Layfayette following Hurricane Katrina. She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Stewart McCaleb; a sister, Oletta Stoner Belk; and a brother, Chester Germany. Mrs. McCaleb is...

Joseph (Joe) Rosetti

Joseph (Joe) Rosetti

Aug 20, 2007

Mr. Joseph (Joe) M. Rosetti, age 79, of Biloxi, MS, went to live in God's eternal garden on August 20, 2007. Mr. Rosetti, also known as "Rosy", was born September 6, 1927, at home on First Street, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Joe began working at age 13 as a shrimper alongside his father. He worked in the piping department at Ingall's...

DENNIS KEITH BROWN

DENNIS KEITH BROWN

Aug 20, 2007

Dennis Keith Brown, 69 of Biloxi passed away on Monday, August 20, 2007 in Biloxi. Dennis was born in Grand Rapids, MN in 1938 to the late Wendell Brown and Luverne Brown Welte. Dennis grew up in Marble, MN and graduated from Greenway High School in Coleraine, MN He served for four years in th U.S. Navy. He worked at...

Ann Taft Bosse'

Ann Taft Bosse'

Aug 19, 2007

Ann Taft Bosse', mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, born February 18, 1920, in California, Pennsylvania, died peacefully August 19, 2007 at G.C. Medical Center after complications related to hip surgery. She was 87. A 55 year resident of Biloxi, Ann medically retired from the Civil Service at Keesler Air Force Base Hospital in 1976 where she had worked as a Pathology Department...

Paul Allen Dennis

Paul Allen Dennis

Aug 18, 2007

Retired M/Sgt. Paul Allen Dennis, 72, was born in Spencer, NC on November 23, 1934. He moved to Portsmouth, VA at the age of five where he attended local public schools. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1954. Paul served in the U. S. Army from 1957-1959. He joined the U. S. Air Force in 1961. During his...

Gerald Joseph Romero

Gerald Joseph Romero

Aug 17, 2007

Mr. Gerald Joseph Romero, 77, a native and lifelong resident of Biloxi, died August 17, 2007, at his home with his family after a four year battle with cancer. Mr. Romero was preceded in death by his mother, Agnes Savoy Rushing, his father, Dorthy Romero, and his son, Russell Joseph Romero. He is survived by his wife of 51 years,...

Constance Trahan Butterfield

Constance Trahan Butterfield

Aug 17, 2007

Mrs. Connie Trahan Butterfield, age 73, of Navarre, FL., formerly of West Warwick, RI., passed away unexpectedly in Florida on August 17, 2007. Born in Mississippi, Mrs. Butterfield attended Biloxi High School. She met her future husband while he was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base. They married and moved north to Rhode Island where they raised their son and...

Catherine Clower Thornhill

Catherine Clower Thornhill

Aug 16, 2007

Catherine Clower Thornhill, age 76, of Gulfport, died Thursday, August 16, 2007 in Columbia, MS. She was born in Gulfport and had been a resident for most of her life. Mrs. Thornhill was a graduate of Gulfport High School, Class of 1948, a graduate of Gulf Park College and University of Southern Mississippi where she was a member of Chi...

Floyd Harry Beaugez

Floyd Harry Beaugez

Aug 13, 2007

Floyd Harry “Bud” Beaugez, 82, received his wings as Heaven opened up its pearly gates for a new angel on Monday, August 13, 2007. Waiting at the gates with a long awaited kiss was his first wife, Annetta, parents Mose and Esther, sister Patricia and brother, Francis. Floyd was born on July 4, 1925 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and was...

Clyde W. "Buck" Jackson

Clyde W. "Buck" Jackson

Aug 12, 2007

Clyde "Buck" Jackson, age 78, of Saucier, died Sunday, August 12, 2007 in Saucier. He was born in Jones County, Ms and had been a resident of the Gulf Coast for over forty years. Mr. Jackson proudly served in the U. S. Army as first Sargent for over 22 years and served in Korean and Vietnam Wars. He always had...

William "Bill" Ruble

William "Bill" Ruble

Aug 12, 2007

William "Bill" Warren Ruble, Jr. died Sunday, August 12, 2007. He was 83 years old and was born November 25, 1923. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. William Ruble , Sr. Also preceding him in death were two brothers, Joe Mize Ruble and Houston Ruble as well as three sisters, Essie Ruble Spears,...

Patrick Joseph Trebotich

Patrick Joseph Trebotich

Aug 10, 2007

Mr. Patrick Joseph Trebotich, age 48, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Friday, August 10, 2007, in D'Iberville, MS. Mr. Trebotich was a graduate of Notre Dame High School and Mississippi State University. He was formerly employed as an electrical engineer for the Mississippi Power Company and the General Electric Corporation. He was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph and...

Marilyn Elizabeth Prince

Marilyn Elizabeth Prince

Aug 10, 2007

Mrs. Marilyn Elizabeth Prince, age 60, of Ocean Springs, MS., died Friday, August 10, 2007, at her home in Ocean Springs. After graduating from high school in her hometown of Purvis, MS., Libby received her training as an X-Ray Technologist at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, MS. She remained employed in the X-Ray field until her retirement due to illness...

Gary Anthony Fountain

Gary Anthony Fountain

Aug 9, 2007

Mr. Gary Fountain, 66, of D'Iberville, MS died Thursday, August 9, 2007, in Defuniak Springs, FL. Mr. Fountain was born in Biloxi. He was a lifelong resident of St. Martin and a graduate of St. Martin High School. He lived in D'iberville before he moved to Defuniak Springs, FL after Hurricane Katrina. Gary had worked on Great Lakes ore ships,...

Robert Berchman Randazzo

Robert Berchman Randazzo

Aug 7, 2007

Robert B. Randazzo "Meatball", age 73, died August 7, 2007 in Gulfport, MS. He was a life long resident of Biloxi and a world traveler. He served his country in the Army during the Korean War, however, a majority of his life was spent as a vessel manager working in exotic places such as Africa, Diego Garcia, Trinidad, and the...